Bill Text: NY A08981 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of staging a construction site accident which is a class E felony.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - print number 8981a [A08981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08981-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8981--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, ARDILA, HYNDMAN, HEVESI, LUCAS, PRETLOW,
          ZEBROWSKI, LAVINE, BLUMENCRANZ, BENDETT, MCGOWAN, DINOWITZ  --  Multi-
          Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
          staging a construction site accident

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 176.85 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 176.85 Staging a construction site accident.
     4    A person is guilty of staging a construction site accident when,  with
     5  intent  to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act, such
     6  person enters a construction site and intentionally stages  an  accident
     7  on  such  site  with  the intent to file an insurance claim, or directs,
     8  hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another  individual
     9  to enter a construction site and intentionally stage an accident on such
    10  site with the intent to file an insurance claim.
    11    Staging a construction site accident is a class E felony.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14136-02-4